"Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but……" — John C. Wright
"Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus."
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10 Quotes by John C. Wright
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One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail…
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If atheism solved all human woe, then the Soviet Union would have been an empire of joy and dancing bunnies,…
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A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and…
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What would the world be like if you had to develop a power yourself before you could use it? Just…
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Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations.…
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If Vulcans had a church, they’d be Catholics.
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Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those…
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My wife is a Christian and is extraordinary patient, logical, and philosophical. For years, I would challenge and condemn her…
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A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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